microcleavage

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ cleavage.

Noun

microcleavage (countable and uncountable, plural microcleavages)

1. cleavage to form very thin layers
   • 2015 July 22, M. Umar Farooq, Arqum Hashmi, Jisang Hong, “Anisotropic bias dependent transport property of defective phosphorene layer”, in Scientific Reports‎, volume 5, →DOI:

     Very recently, a new 2D material phosphorene named after its parent black phosphorous was mechanically exfoliated by scotch tape based microcleavage method from a layered bulk black phosphorus and also a single layer phosphorene was obtained by plasma-assisted fabrication process 9 10 .